mar 5, 1953 - Death of Stalin
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-left Khrushchev, Malenkov and Beria each trying to become leader of USSR (Khrushchev emerged as leader by 1955)
-Mao felt he was the senior communist leader (had respected Stalin as senior leader, but after his death Mao had been in power for longer than new leader)
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